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The current climate crisis and the rapid transformation of the natural environments will inevitably pose a threat to human settlements around the world. This book explores possible local strategies and global solutions in the safeguarding of coastal cities and the often-neglected urban waterfronts.
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List of figuresList of tablesList of contributorsAcknowledgmentsForewordCarola HeinIntroductionPernice Raffaele, Tetsuya YaguchiPart 1 - Water and the City in the early 21st Century. Architectural and Urban Dimensions: Case Studies Japan1) A Metabolist Utopia in the Crisis of a Flooded Society
Leonardo Zuccaro Marchi, Alice Covatta2) Urban life on the Water. Concepts, Models and Prototypes for Marine Habitats in Japan 1958-2025
Raffaele Pernice3) Tokyo Waterfront Urban Planning and Disaster Resilience: An Unforgettable Memory
George Kurumado4) Pre-Disaster Recovery Planning and Consensus Building in Riverfront Neighbourhoods through Risk Communication. A Case of "Nige Chizu" Creation in Totsuka District, Shinjuku, Tokyo
Tetsuya Yaguchi5) Resilience in Tokyo
William Galloway6) From Shipyards to Skylines: The Evolution of Yokohama's Waterfront
Heide Imai7) Waterfront Restoration in Yokohama after the Great Kanto Earthquake in 1923¿Focusing on the Reconstruction of Yokohama Harbor and Canals
Yunlian ChenPart 2 - Water and the City in the early 21st Century. Architectural and Urban Dimensions: Case Studies International8) Venice Floods: an Urban Morphology Perspective
Paola Favaro9) Waterfront Regeneration and Vitality in Hong Kong Central
Hee Sun 'Sunny' Choi10) Affordable Floating Communities: How can Human Life on Water be made Attractive and Socially Sustainable for Larger Communities?
Harry den Hartog11) Small-Scale Green Infrastructure for Sustainable Urban Flood Mitigation in the Tropical High-density Cities: A Case of Bangkok's Polder Areas
Theeraporn Premchaiswadi12) San Francisco Waterfront Resilience Program Draft Plan
Adam Varat, Luiz Barata13) Waterfronts as Shared Heritage: Balancing Heritage Conservation and Climate Change Mitigation in Metro Vancouver's waterfront areas
Yiting Pan14) Climate Adaptation in Sydney Waterfront Planning Management
Nan Ye, Jing Li15) Exit the Waterfront. Enter Coastal Landscape Design: A Case Study of the Mekong Delta
Bruno De Meulder, Kelly Shannon16) Reformulating Peri-urban Landscape Guidelines to Maintain Stormwater Management Capacity in Low-lying Developing Cities: a case of Phnom Penh
Sokuncharia SreyAfterwordHelen LochheadIndex
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Raffaele Pernice is a licensed architect and Senior Lecturer in Architecture and Urbanism in the Faculty of Arts, Design & Architecture at the University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney), Australia. An urban and architectural historian by training, he holds a PhD in architecture from Waseda University, Japan and a MArch from the University IUAV of Venice, Italy.
Tetsuya Yaguchi is Professor at Waseda University, Japan, where he conducts theoretical research and leads urban design initiatives aimed at sustaining and enhancing the built environment. In addition to his academic work, Mr. Yaguchi actively conducts pre-disaster planning workshops for communities in Tokyo and develops disaster education programmes for younger generations.
